A new gem: rubygems is it jruby?

A few days ago after seeing this tweet, I’ve decided to migrate the gem rubygems-isit19 to jruby. Thanks to this, when you install another gem you’ll be able to read about compability of this gem with jruby, the information is fetched from isitjruby.com website.

Once you have installed the gem you will have two main features, it’s easier if I just show you. First the messages when you install gems:

$ jgem isitjruby faker
faker 0.3.1: http://isitjruby.com/faker
Blaxter says 0.3.1 works on GNU/Linux
it works perfectly, and it passes all test.
$ jgem isitjruby daemons
daemons 1.0.10: http://isitjruby.com/daemons
blaxter says 1.0 fails on GNU/Linux
Daemons use fork, jruby doesn't support fork, so it doesn't work and
never will

$ jgem isitjruby faker
faker 0.3.1: http://isitjruby.com/faker
Blaxter says 0.3.1 works on GNU/Linux
it works perfectly, and it passes all test.
$ jgem isitjruby daemons
daemons 1.0.10: http://isitjruby.com/daemons
blaxter says 1.0 fails on GNU/Linux
Daemons use fork, jruby doesn't support fork, so it doesn't work and
never will

And that’s it. The code is on github be free of fork me or open any issues. The important thing is populate with relevant information isitjruby.com for benefit of all jruby community. Oh I forgot to tell you how to install it, very easy, I’ve uploaded the gem to gemcutter so you can install it with something like

$ jgem install rubygems-isitjruby -s http://gemcutter.org

It’s also in github, but I think (and I hope) gemcutter will be the next rubyforge, so better gemcutter :).